The U.S.- Dakota Conflict: The Past Is Alive Within Us | Documentary 

This does right by the Native Dakota of Minnesota. What a fabulous documentary. This should be mandatory viewing in all schools. We NEED more of this kind of quality and holistic education about indigenous people & culture. Minnesota Ojibwe here, this video made me sob by how well it was done. Thank you for giving the Dakota this platform and voice. I would love to see more Minnesota tribal history!!!

“They tried to bury us but didn’t know we were seeds”.❤️

It amazes me How much you learn on these documentaries compared to what I learned in school!

I grew up in Mankato 1953-1972. I remember seeing the historical monument of the 38 Indians who were hanged. Someone threw red paint on it if memory serves, and it was eventually moved. I didn’t know the history until I read Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee.

This was very informative and heart warming. I myself am Native American part Lumbee and part Cherokee from Lumberton NC. Our people still struggle to this day. We need more Documentaries like this to keep our ancestors spirits alive and respect all they went through. We are a dying breed but I’d love to see that change. Godbless

The documentary starts out saying that people say they didn't learn about the Dakota Conflict and I am in that group. This video is very informative and I am glad to have watched it. I learned a lot the Dakota and the the history of Minnesota. This is a great educational tool.

There really is a group of so called Americans who think they can ignore the history of this land. I don't leave it to school to teach my son because I do not trust it. He will teach his son. He tells me that I dwell on sad stories but I tell him the history of this land is sad. I am sorry our world does not yet value all people. Thank you for sharing and teaching.

My ×5 grandfather dowansa tenazepa the singer. On a ancestral journey. Am studying my family history. It breaks my heart. I hope to give a voice to the issues the dakota and indegenous people still face today. I thank my grandma goldie's spirit for sending me on this path. 🙏 ❤💛🖤🤍

Just as a side note, the Plains tribes tipi is the most beautiful, livable shelter one could have in that environment. Before all the conflict, they were meticulously crafted out of buffalo hide, later...settler cloth. “The Indian Tipi” by the Laubins . Excellent book, with plans for making your own. Beautiful with the 18’ lodge pole pine supports, streamers flying off the tips. Comfortable even in the toughest winters with an inside fire pit and smoke flaps. Also, the book goes into a lot of detail on the culture / lifestyle as the Laubins spent a great deal of time among those who knew the old ways.

Thank you, TC PBS, for this outstanding documentary! So many dignified human beings all around who have dealt with so much pain.

It's so important that these young people preserve and understand everything about their artifacts and culture. Like in any religious ceremony it's the small gestures built over a very long time that carry the most meaning and reverence. One day someone will want to do something ceremonial but all the knowledge will be gone on how to do any of it. Or why you wear the head dress and what the different parts mean. Young native Americans you are all that's left!!

Once again I'm thankful for TPT and another wonderful documentary that should be mandatory in our educational system. I've been shocked by the lack of real history I was taught growing up in Minnesota, but it's also opened my eyes to so many atrocities within our culture. It's so important we acknowledge our past and become stewards of peace and reconciliation for future generations.

A perfect example of what happens when people rely on government to solve problems. They only seem to leave a trail of bodies in their wake.

a lot of ppl might not watch this but i had to watch it for school and coming to this video thinking it was all fun and adventure i now see how deep it was.

A riveting documentary. What you see is the graciousness of the native people speaking of having been erased and they are so beautifully resilient that it takes your breath away. My own personal experience is that it took most of my life to find out any of my connections to the culture. This was so meticulously and lovingly done it took me by surprise. And I so appreciate the way you delivered it. You have every reason to be proud of this masterpiece.

Kindness is the only thread that can weave us together. Peace to the peoples of Earth.

I worked at Fort Boonesbough, in Ky. And the old ladies that had worked there for 20+ yrs would call the Indians savages. So being young and knowing that my mothers family was of the Cherokee tribe that didn't sit well with me so, I spoke up and said well if someone stole your homes and land and starved your family to death wouldn't that make you act a little savage to. Especially seeing your children crying from hunger!! They spoke up and said that didn't matter because they were like animals, I said well my grt-grandparents were Indians and they weren't like animals because, we would go see them before they died and they acted civilized just like you and me!!! I worked there for 2 seasons and quit because I didn't like all the things I didn't like!!!

What can we do now, to get to where we want to be in 20 years?" This is awesome and the kind of thinking into action that will get you there ❤ I loved this documentary! Bring me more and more and more! I am planning my next pow wow 🙏

These stories and emotions for this quest... Really need to be shared. I spent a lot of time in Arizona and Oklahoma, but, I grew up with the native populations of Northern Minnesota. These stories aren't just about the descendants of the tribes. These lessons are necessary for ALL of us!

Man! What happens when you don't help those who are starving. Just feed the hungry. Excellent video, btw.

My great-great grandmother was Emily Prescott. My great grandmother was Mary Cantley Dunsmoore Rose. My grandfather Adelbert Russell Rose. He was one of 13 children born to Mary Cantley and Chester Rose. Many of my grandfather’s siblings (surnames Morris and Rose) were school at Santee Normal School. It shouldn’t be so difficult to trace my grandfather‘s people. The stories told from my mother and her sisters were that my grandfather’s family we are well known in their community of Two-Harbors, Minnesota. One goal I have now that I am retired, is to follow up on genealogy that I started well over 20 years ago to research my grandfathers people. We are Santee Sue. We are very proud family. It is unfortunate that tracing our heritage is proving to be very difficult. Any assistance, suggestions, recommendations, contacts, would be greatly appreciated.

I love actual knowledge of the history of the native peoples of the earth and I love the fact of what this record is still represented in a rational and respectful manner. Thank you for sharing true history.

This is an amazing and eye opening , emotion invoking, thought provoking thing I have had the luck to stumble across. Tears , anger , pride , shame , all of the emotional rollercoaster ride , I've felt . I'm not an Indian or first people of this country . Yet the Pride I feel towards your people all of the tribes has and continues to be elevated by the determination and nobility shown in the efforts to have acknowledged all that is your GOD'S given rights to your heritage and sacred places ! My mother was from Pipestone and shared with her nine children her love and admiration of those indian children she had known while growing up . I have myself been to Pipestone , to the quarry, one of my mother's favorite places . May the GOD'S THAT BE smile down on you and yours , help your people in all was . Keep you safe . Guide your journey in this life with kindness and understanding until you stand with your ancestors again ! ✌️🙈🙊🙉👍

My great great grandfather settled in Minnesota. it was so cold back then, he said the thing he wanted the most was an electric heater, which he never got. sad.

I like him saying bitterness does not solve any problems. It’s too bad not everybody sees it that way nowadays

Minnesota history without Dakota history isnt history is such a true statement. Very educational piece

This was so amazing to watch and to learn actual history this was beautiful and at the same time heart breaking 💕

This has moved and inspired me deeply . As you can see in my comments here . Humbled by the true dignity and honor . ✌️🙈🙊🙉❤️

Really good documentary, thank you so much to all the people who put their time and effort into it.

Great documentary. Regrettably it also shines a light on how people who are stuck in the past have trouble living in the present and will never have a future.

@35:50 - This EXACT same situation happened during the Irish "Famine", Reason for Quotes is because there was NO food Famine in Mid 1840's in Ireland - it was a Potato Crop failure (Potato Blight) which unfortunately the majority of the poor population existed on this Single Crop harvest.. However like in this Native American Docu there was also enormous Wharehouses hoarding All other type of foods and crops which were being Exported via Britain to the Continent.. In the Major Port Cities like Dublin, Cork, Belfast etc., all the Foodstuffs were Wharehoused and loaded on Ships bound for Britain and beyond however the silly Irish never captured or even tried overtaking these Towns or Areas like these Brave Native Lakota did, very strange.. I'm sure the British sent over enough Redcoats to protect Cities and the Rich Landlords and their properties..

The Dekoda children are so beautiful. Love see the Dekoda culture. This is a supper video.

I'm mixed heritage, but really only know my grandfather came from either Switzerland or Netherlands, I ascribe to love one another, forgive often, and hold individuals accountable for thier behaviors. I hold deep sorrow for all persons who have experienced trauma and oppression at the hands of tyrannical , greedy, deceptive, murderous persons of any ethnicity or backgrounds. I hope we can learn to stop warring and lift each other up in love and respect our individual cultures while at the same time realizing we are one race....human. Wishing harmony and healing for us all.

Look at these people now their ancestors would be proud of them as they are right to be proud of their ancestors who went through so much! Made to look like the bad guys as you get older you realise they were not but were fighting for survival so shame on our European ancestors of the time! God bless us all!

There was a painting of the attack on New Ulm by Anton Gag which used to be displayed in the state capital - it was removed in 2016 as it was apparently too controversial...

I’m glad to see the steps of reconciliation are finally being taken.

I just "found" this channel, and I'm already hooked on your videos. Thank you, sir, for your interesting content and brilliant presentation of said content.

Too heartbreaking for words.

I appreciate you sharing because I have always been curious about my history and this really answered a lot of my questions.

@ 25:30 - What a well spoken lady… Such a tragedy… so many things were done wrong in all of, “our past..” ✌🏼

I was lucky enough to spend alot of my youth on three different reservations. It helped me to grow up with a completely different outlook. Many of my Native friends in the 70s, had relatives who were only a few generations in the past, and who were killed strictly because they were Native.

I am glad to see European Americans waking up to their Tribes and Family Crests from the homeland in Europe. We were told to forget our past but we as Europeans must remember the servitude and religious persecution that was left behind in Europe. We came here seeking freedom and opportunity . . . And PEACE. 🙏💯

Thank you for all of these facts they don't tell you in school.❤️

I have shed tears watching and listening to this for another time and even though it is not the first time it always makes me cry profusely to learn about this Native American Indian Holocaust it is a tragedy and evil which should never have happened by Racism and the Fear of the Settlers who were greedy and just took and wanted it all for themselves and cast out the very people who had nurtured and protected that land for generations. Lessons need to be learned and Reparation made and Restoration and land returned or and compensation to its original people and that early LAW REMOVED as it removed 99% of its people from the face of the earth. GOD BLESS and PROTECT the DAKOTA PEOPLE

Fascinating . These great people have endured so much cruelty and discrimination.

I have registration numbers I have names as well as family trees that I can provide. In watching this documentary a lot of names are very familiar so I know that they are distant relatives still active in the Sioux community and in my grandfather’s family.

An amazing people with an unique Culture and History to share. Thanks for sharing ❣️🙏

Thankyou for this, our kids need to be taught and cultured about this kinda stuff....tiktok isn't an education!!

It’s about time!!! Now the hidden historians can expose and reveal many things❤

A nice documentary!

Thank you from Ireland to the Choctaw people

This made me laugh, and cry. It's horrible how poorly these folks were treated. Hopefully we can all do better, learn from this history. 💙✌👣

I really like Dallas Goldtooth. I followed his live video feeds during that Standing Rock stand. I went there too and camped for the night. There was a full moon that night illuminating all the teepees that had their camp fire smoke coming up and making the camp smell so good. I imagined I was back in a time where these camps were living and breathing the native life. There were kids whooping their happy sounds on their horses galloping past my tent. I had so many different emotions that day, night and following day. I got to see what it was like for many nations of people coming together yet I felt the palpable wounds hanging in the air. I felt good that I could be there yet felt a deep sadness that I don't know my own ancestral connections. I felt I was welcome yet felt I wasn't by some bc of the wounds some hang tight to. I got to experience a prayer session yet I was educated by a kind elder telling me I have to be on the outer perimeter bc I had my dog with me. I felt happy he was kind enough to let me know but embarrassed that I didn't know their customs. I felt I should know more but was I intruding if I asked and would they tell me just the outer surface and never give me the truths for fear of outsiders judging or corrupting their ways. I was humbled on a new deeper level even when I thought I was already a humble person. I spent that whole trip to standing rock, then to the black hills and on through the bad lands all the while imagining what this beautiful land looked and felt like pre white man settlers coming here. It was a very uplifting road trip yet deeply saddening mixed with joy. I camped at the black hills. I was sad that the gov hijacked that area. Yet happy that I was able to be there. As I closed my eyes laying in my tent that night I had literal visions of people in the spirit world coming to me welcoming me and joyous I could see them and happy I had taken that soul journey. All the ancestors that have passed on are only joyous when we look into the truths. They aren't angry and trying to make us feel guilty and terrible for not understanding things. They just want us to heal and come together. To reach out to those even if they hold resentment in their hearts. To just pray if that's all we know to do. That's what I did up on the hill at Standing Rock. I just prayed the way I knew how. We are as a people figuring this out. It's really mostly healing your soul. A healed person recognizes another healed soul. You don't know how you will affect someone by just healing your own shit.

I thought US history in both junior high as well as high school. There is very little information in the history textbooks regarding native American history however I was very surprised when questions pertaining to native American history ended up on the state tests! When the history books just note about the trail of tears that’s not a complete truth about Native American culture.

All schools should show this video. SHARE WITH EVERYONE YOU KNOW!

I'm not even 10 minutes in and I Already love it. The thoughts and opinions of RATIONAL and COMPASSIONATE People is like a breath of fresh air these days in this country!

May All Hearts Heal. May We All Stand Hand in Hand. May We All Share Kindness and Compassion. May All Hearts Heal. Bless Us All

It doesn't matter what part of the world you come from, in human history, where people begin to starve, the wrath of hunger will fight to live!

Brilliant insight @ 31:00 and 33:00.

Thanks Lynn that was amazing as always ❤️🙏❤️🙏❤️🙏❤️

This was great!! Stay on them to change Law's We R 1 with you ✌🏿✌🏿

When people connect one-on-one, friendship and helpfulness can abound. It isn't until the powers-that-be, outside a community, who make decisions that destroy a community.

Living in the UK, in schools, absolutely none of this was taught and i really wish it was. It should be, we should be educated on what animals we as a race, actually are or have been. Time (allegedly) heals all wounds yet this shows otherwise. Natives who lived in America for generations before the blank white faces show up, literally had to white wash history as the heroes. Teach this in American schools, in depth. The only savages who existed back then, were the invaders. The ones destroying the land that had supported humanity for thousands of years. This is without a doubt one of the most educational, touching and heartbreaking documentaries I've witnessed for a long time - Thank you.

Thank you Twin Cites PBS for thus enlightening and educational piece! All Minnesota schools should show this video. Knowledge is power. Respect for our indigenous peoples🙏🥰

Most interesting that we talk about protecting plants and bees while we are still blasting pesticides all over everything.

It's sad when honorable people suffer at the hands of terrible people

Beautiful people thank you for sharing 💞 much love from Aotearoa New Zealand

Tears 😢and Praying🙏 to God for what was done- as I watch this TRUTH of Americans history. WE must never forget what wrong was done, however FORGIVING each other is the key to future fortitude.

We need more documentaries like this.

Thanks! I always support places that give a voice to indigenous peoples anywhere.

THANK YOU!!

I'd be honored to learn and have access to the Dakota language . Where do I go to begin my journey ? Thank you for any help with this endeavor, and again for this enlightening documentary ! 🖖🙉🙊🙈✌️

I think it takes heart, energy and courage to step far enough from the trauma to even look back and identify it let alone the depth of character to bear it. For the truly dedicated...I would love to hear the words in their language. Hope please, on we go. : :

Thank you.

i enjoyed this documentary as i asked for my records at the natioñal archives thanks

In old photos,you can see the pain in the eyes of their ancestors.i don't think I've ever seen a picture where people were smiling.

I grew up in a large family in Redwood Falls in the 1960s, and it was a traumatic experience because we were ostracized and bullied. We were called “filthy Indians”, screamed at, chased, had rocks that thrown at us, our car was egged, etc. As a child, I used to wonder what was wrong with us, because I couldn’t understand why people hated us. When I grew up, I realized that there was still animosity and racism in Redwood Falls towards anyone who was thought to be Indian because of the 1862 war that happened over a hundred years earlier. We did not even live on the reservation, were not part of any tribe, and may not even have any native ancestors at all….haven’t found any in the family tree or DNA. Imagine how much worse it was for actual Native Americans growing up there.

Thanks!

This certainly should have been taught in our schools where we were growing up at least in Minnesota. What a travesty it wasn’t.

Imagine some foreign SOB who has a deed for what was once yours telling you that if you and your tribe are starving to eat grass or move on down the trail. That would make anybody fighting mad.

Thank you Twin Cities PBS.

Love this video! I know this is not the place to air this, but…..I’m sick as can be about cachava energy drink and the guy telling us if we don’t stop cardio he’ll “jump in the pool”

And for those who think this couldn't happen again. It could

This was your land, your place. No one had any right to take it from you. You speak perfectly and intelligently. I feel for what you have all gone through. My heart goes out to you. Bless you all.

Absolutely healing! Full of Joy. This is tangible proof that speaking THE TRUTH from Creator Great Spirit God with love, discernment, timing, conviction and whenever possible gentleness as in All known histories is the way of Peace, Love, Healing and Genuine Happiness. We are ALIVE STILL TOO. Relieved, joyous and happy to see this production. May We All continue to Walk with the Creator for many moons and countless miles. The youngest and last in history people to survive !!! We Remain

Im from Oklahoma, I get it. People wanna forget history......WE CANT LET THEM!!!!!!

THIS IS OUR EARTH, NO EXCEPTIONS.

Educational. Heartwarming. THOUGHT provoking. Forgiveness.

The best book I have ever read that deals with the Native Americans and the good , bad and ugly that happened to them was written by Dee Brown . “ Bury my heart at Wounded Knee “ is the history from Columbus too Wounded Knee and the end of the Indian wars .

As a black man im definitely feeling this doc. Before Learning some of the history of the 1st nations people We played this game you know cowboys and the 1st nations people I always chose 1st nations and then I learned the history of my people in this country then I understood why.

Its amasing the idea that this happened to ppl whose gran kids are alive

Thank You, Interesting

I think with a few trades and sacrifices (or admitting our weaknesses America could achieve a decent democracy. Objective: unite in the idea that most others are the same as you. It’s good to be different in a good way. And it is always a wonderful discovery when you meet an unknown tribe.

I certainly never learned about this in NYC public schools. In fact, we were taught next to nothing about native Americans except the myth of the Pilgrims and Indians being friends at the first Thanksgiving.

We in my families watch A lot of PBS IT IS EDUCATIONAL INFORMATIVE A RESOLUTION FOR THE FUTURE IS TOO UNDERSTAND YOUR PASS..

No challenge here I even have a splash of Cherokee 3rd grandma was full. Truth of history can ensure that it will not be repeated. I do wish along time ago they would have put all the nations In charge of the environment different parts to the ones that knows It. Would be so much better. No one. Anyone would want for anything... Water would be clean.. ❤️

Free Lenard Peltier. The FBI lied and we died. Long live the Lakota, Dakota, and Nakota. The Black Hills belong to us by Treaty. We are still here. Hitler took many off his horrendous ideas from the First Nation/American wars. History is written by the winner! I never forget it. I go by oral history from my great grandparents. They are gone but not forgotten. R.I.P. all my ancestors!

I enjoy these insightful locks into the lives of the leaders of the past to actually walk the lands of this great country of ours. I guess if they wrote down every bit of history we will be here for months upon months upon months sorting it out trying to get through every little piece of information that needs to be gone over so I guess what is in the history books I I guess what we don’t see is all the little things we just get the highlight reel. The transparency that was supposed to be there you know

It is so sad, but happy at the same time, because the Story, of the Dakota people are being told today of what really happened!!!.

Reminds me of what happened to the aztech people of the ucatan pennsuilia when the Spanish arrived in the 1500s.